What this hexagram is about
Fire beneath the mountain, casting light and lending luster — the image of adornment and grace. It speaks of form and substance: measured ornament is well, but one must not chase the surface and forsake the root, for plainness is the foundation of all.
The Judgment 卦辞
贲，亨。小利有攸往。
Success. In small matters, favorable to have somewhere to go.
The Image 大象传
《象》曰：山下有火，贲；君子以明庶政，无敢折狱。
Fire below the mountain lends it grace; so the noble person brings order to daily affairs, but dares not pass judgment in grave trials.
Commentary on the Lines 小象传
舍车而徒，义弗乘也。
Leaving the carriage to walk on foot — by what is right, he will not ride.
The Six Lines (hover over the figure above)
Six at the top白贲，无咎。
To adorn with plain, unfigured white — ornament carried to its height returns to simplicity; there is no fault.
Six in the fifth place贲于丘园，束帛戋戋，吝，终吉。
Adorning amid the plainness of the hill-garden, the gift of silk but meager; it seems poor and a cause for regret, yet in honoring thrift one meets good fortune in the end.
Nine in the fourth place贲如皤如，白马翰如，匪寇婚媾。
Adorned in pure and spotless white, riding up on a white horse; no robber this, but a suitor come to ask for marriage.
Nine in the third place贲如濡如，永贞吉。
Adorned to a rich and lustrous elegance; to hold long to what is right brings good fortune.
Six in the second place贲其须。
To adorn one's beard — attached to what is above, moving only as it moves.
Initial Nine贲其趾，舍车而徒。
To adorn one's own toes — grace in the smallest things; better to leave the carriage and go contentedly on foot, keeping to one's proper station.